Why do I need password to file share???

[Pete Coppola]

I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.

Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
shared.

Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
upgraded computer, it requests a password?

What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Windows 9x is not a secure OS. XP is.

Add both user login names & passwords identically on each computer. Then
try...

Pete Coppola wrote:
> I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
> just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.
>
> Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
> shared.
>
> Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
> can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
> upgraded computer, it requests a password?
>
> What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.

[purplehaz]

In an NT(xp) environment, you need to have identical user accounts and
passwords on both computers in order to have seemless networking with no
password requests.

Pete Coppola wrote:
> I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
> just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.
>
> Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
> shared.
>
> Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
> can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
> upgraded computer, it requests a password?
>
> What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.

[Jason]

You are running new technology (based on NT 3.51). This means that the
usernames and passwords must exist on both computers. By default XP requires
a password to connect over the network. You would have struck this when
connecting from the 98 client to the XP host but not connecting from XP
client to 98 host. Which works fine due to poor security. There is a way to
disable password required but I can't remember it. There are a few good NT
(2000/XP) web sites and people here post the details. One is
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com. You could do a search for "Windows XP".

"Pete Coppola" > wrote in message
...
> I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
> just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.
>
> Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
> shared.
>
> Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
> can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
> upgraded computer, it requests a password?
>
> What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.

[NobodyMan]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:56:06 -0800, "Pete Coppola" >
wrote:

>I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
>just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.
>
>Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
>shared.
>
>Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
>can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
>upgraded computer, it requests a password?
>
>What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.

To sucessfully network the two machines, both boxes have to have
identically named user accounts with identical, non-blank passwords.
That's how they authenticate credentials while sharing.

[Menno Hershberger]

NobodyMan > wrote in
:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:56:06 -0800, "Pete Coppola" >
> wrote:
>
>>I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
>>just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.
>>
>>Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
>>shared.
>>
>>Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
>>can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
>>upgraded computer, it requests a password?
>>
>>What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.
>
> To sucessfully network the two machines, both boxes have to have
> identically named user accounts with identical, non-blank passwords.
> That's how they authenticate credentials while sharing.
>
I notice everyone is saying the same thing here. But I have a four
computer network, 2 XP's and two Windows 98. All in the same workgroup,
of course. No problem sharing anything between any of them. My passwords
are all blanks. The only time I had any problem was when the XP firewall
was turned on. It won't work thru the firewall.
Someone told me once that the reason I was getting away with this was
because both my XP machines are formatted in Fat 32. There may be
something to that.

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

No, you probably have "guest" enabled, which is not really a good idea from
a security perspective -

Menno Hershberger wrote:
> NobodyMan > wrote in
> :
>
>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:56:06 -0800, "Pete Coppola"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
>>> just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.
>>>
>>> Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
>>> shared.
>>>
>>> Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
>>> can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
>>> upgraded computer, it requests a password?
>>>
>>> What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.
>>
>> To sucessfully network the two machines, both boxes have to have
>> identically named user accounts with identical, non-blank passwords.
>> That's how they authenticate credentials while sharing.
>>
> I notice everyone is saying the same thing here. But I have a four
> computer network, 2 XP's and two Windows 98. All in the same
> workgroup, of course. No problem sharing anything between any of
> them. My passwords are all blanks. The only time I had any problem
> was when the XP firewall was turned on. It won't work thru the
> firewall. Someone told me once that the reason I was getting away
> with this was because both my XP machines are formatted in Fat 32.
> There may be something to that.

[Michael Walraven]

I would suggest that you have a password implemented on the guest account on
the upgraded computer.

enable the guest account, then remove (set to blank) the password for the
guest account, then disable the guest account again
(unless you really use it). XP home uses the 'guest ' account to access
shared files on a computer. The computer that wants
a file logs in as 'guest' on the computer that has the files.

Note: I actually have my setup set with a password on the guest account -
this provides me with additional security which I want as
I also have a wireless node on the network.

Michael


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
hoo.com> wrote in message
...
> No, you probably have "guest" enabled, which is not really a good idea
from
> a security perspective -
>
> Menno Hershberger wrote:
> > NobodyMan > wrote in
> > :
> >
> >> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:56:06 -0800, "Pete Coppola"
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have two computer in a network. One always ran XP. I
> >>> just upgraded the other from 98SE to XP Home.
> >>>
> >>> Before the upgrade, both computers file and printer
> >>> shared.
> >>>
> >>> Now that I upgraded the one computer, the other computer
> >>> can see the upgraded computer but when I go to access the
> >>> upgraded computer, it requests a password?
> >>>
> >>> What do I do?? I want to get rid of this.
> >>
> >> To sucessfully network the two machines, both boxes have to have
> >> identically named user accounts with identical, non-blank passwords.
> >> That's how they authenticate credentials while sharing.
> >>
> > I notice everyone is saying the same thing here. But I have a four
> > computer network, 2 XP's and two Windows 98. All in the same
> > workgroup, of course. No problem sharing anything between any of
> > them. My passwords are all blanks. The only time I had any problem
> > was when the XP firewall was turned on. It won't work thru the
> > firewall. Someone told me once that the reason I was getting away
> > with this was because both my XP machines are formatted in Fat 32.
> > There may be something to that.
>
>